The Hypertextual Adventures

Remembering a learning experience
A new student in a new school
Not sure where to fit in
My new English teacher asks me to write something

I write and I write, what I can not remember
But using the subjective pronoun I, too much

And reading it the teacher asks, obviously a lesson already taught
What is wrong with that to the class
And a girl whom I knew from years before when I lived in the same area
Pointed out the subjective nature of the piece

This experience had an affect on me
First it humiliated me
Which caused me to remember
And struggle against the forgetful subjectiveness

Two competing products

A collection of images

Collective intelligence

Capitalize each line like she told you

or you thought she did

There are spaces between words

And lines between lines

That one is finished

A thought

An intention

This is what I believe

I'll go mad unless I try writing them

I did it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg_H5fRnCc8

The video above was recorded while I was sorta kinda reading the below:

Not sure where I read it recently, but it resonated. "Find yourself on your own time".

My new years resolution is to be focused on what I'm doing. Same old problem. I'm spacey, like that guy who plays Bobby Darrin. Head in the clouds. Sometimes to do a simple task, I get side tracked by some random thought and it takes me minutes/hours to complete something that shouldn't take that long. Get back on track. Love hate with the routine. At times like this I think its good. Have to demarcate those times to focus, and to be unfocused. Or something like that. There has to be a time though. Time to myself, unfocused.

The question I keep asking myself, is where is the durable writing going on today? It's still being written in books, sure, it's an industry that produces such a quantity, the law of averages has to work in it's favor at some point. So I guess my thought is about self publishing, and what writing people on their own, on the net are putting out is worth paying attention to. We have the blogosphere, wikipedia. We have the blogosphere entry on wikipedia. There are some online journals that are putting out some serious work. The same rules mostly apply here. Digital distribution. This year I've been able to catch up on many great films I've missed over the years, or never had the chance to see. I have this very negative feeling toward copyright, and warm fuzzies when I think of copyleft. What is happening and where is it going. What happened, but more importantly how does it affect the future. Community vs. Protectionism. Doing what comes natural. Screaming in the streets.